Realizing that many of our leaders and their constituents are economically unenlightened sheds light on the troubles that surround us.

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Yet just because companies have new rights, that does not mean they must exercise them or must exercise them through the grubbiest, most unenlightened forms of lobbying.

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And you thought that Europe's external trade policies were unenlightened.

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Of course, the unenlightened could stumble sometimes, burning their tongues, or jabbing in a fork after only one minute of silent contemplation, which bent the prongs and sprayed the soup over the keyboard.

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For the unenlightened, it works like this: Banks take in deposits and borrow in the capital markets, usually by issuing commercial paper, notes and bonds to raise more money which they lend out.

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Warner is no unenlightened figure in the sport.

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Drew always has clients in the game who echo his message in hopes of converting the unenlightened about his talents, among them in the past the tag team of Chad Ochocinco (Johnson?) and Terrell Owens.

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This is just plain unenlightened.

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Governments in the Old World have borrowed and promised too much, but rather than default honestly and openly, forcing the people who lent imprudently to take the losses, they try to put the burden of the losses onto the innocent citizen and the unenlightened investor.

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